HP 6550b BIOS Unabled COMM PORT (SERIAL)

Hi,
I have an HP Probook 6550b with BIOS version F.23, I can see my Ricoh PCI connections like USB, SD/MMC Reader and the 1394 Port, but I can't found my Serial COMM PORT??
Thx for your Help!

Hi:
Did you install the AMT driver?
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=3688870&sp...

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          char[] splitPacket = packet.toCharArray();
          char lrc = 0x00;
          for (int x = 0; x < splitPacket.length; x++) {
               lrc = (char) (lrc ^ splitPacket[x]);
          return "" + (char) lrc;
     private String paddingString(String s, int n, char c, boolean paddingLeft) {
          if (s == null) {
               return s;
          int add = n - s.length(); // may overflow int size... should not be a
          if (add <= 0) {
               return s;
          StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer(s);
          char[] ch = new char[add];
          Arrays.fill(ch, c);
          if (paddingLeft) {
               str.insert(0, ch);
          } else {
               str.append(ch);
          return str.toString();
public boolean setProperty(ID id, Object value)
if (id.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("COMPORT")) {
setComPort((String)value);
System.out.println("RS232 com port: " + getComPort());
return false;
if (id.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("AMOUNT")) {
this.setAmount((String)value);
System.out.println("Amount value: " + getAmount());
return false;
if (id.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("TRANSACTIONTYPE")) {
this.setTransactionType((String)value);
System.out.println("Transaction Type value: " + this.getTransactionType());
return false;
if (id.toString().equalsIgnoreCase("EXECUTE")) {
System.out.println("Invoke pos terminal");
try
doTransaction();
catch(Exception ex)
System.err.println("Execute Exception>> " + ex.toString());
this.showError(res.getProperty("s_dlg_err_title"),res.getProperty("s_gen_exception"));
return false;
return false;
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     * @param title
     * @param exceptionString
     private void showError(String title, String exceptionString) {
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, exceptionString, title, 0);
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Associating a comm port with a TS test socket

Hello,
In order to run several test platforms on one machine (parallel model), I must be able to associate each test socket with a unique serial port. Each hardware platform has it's own serial connection which is built in Labview. So my question is, "how can I use a single test sequence calling LV VIs where each test socket must use a different comm port?"
Thank you for helping,
Adam

How dynamic is the com port configurations? Will some testers only differ in the number of ports? If that's the case, then you'll also need to dynamically change how many sockets you're testing. This could be done, probably in a sequence file load callback and with the LabVIEW function VISA Find Resource. Searching for all ASRL resources will return a count and their names. You could populate a station global string array with the names. Right now, I have a fixed count of resources so I just populate a main sequence local variable with all of the possible names. I assign the resource name for the VI as Locals.VISAResource and in a pre-expression for the VI, Locals.VISAResource = Locals.AllVISAResources[RunState.TestSockets.MyIndex]

How to open the comm ports?

Hi,
im using javacomm to detect my comm ports.i have two serial
and a parallel port (com1,com2 and LPT1) but it found no ports and throws
as follows,
found: javax.comm.CommPortEnumerator@e83912
found: 0 open ports
i placed .properties file in ..\jdk1.5.0\jre\lib
comm jar file in ..\jdk1.5.0\jre\lib\ext
and WIN32COM.DLL in ..jre\bin
am i doing right?
Here is the code,
import javax.comm.CommPortIdentifier;
import javax.comm.SerialPort;
import javax.comm.PortInUseException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Vector;
public class TestEnumeration {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Vector portslist = TestEnumeration.getAvailableSerialPorts();
System.out.println("found: "+portslist.size()+" open ports");
public static Vector getAvailableSerialPorts() {
CommPortIdentifier pId=null;
SerialPort sPort=null;
Enumeration pList=null;
boolean foundport=false;
pList = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
String port=null;
Vector ports=new Vector();
if(!pList.hasMoreElements()) {
System.out.println("found: "+pList);
return ports;
while (pList.hasMoreElements()) {
pId = (CommPortIdentifier) pList.nextElement();
if (pId.getPortType() == CommPortIdentifier.PORT_SERIAL) {
foundport=true;
try {
sPort = (SerialPort)pId.open("serialport", 1000);
} catch (PortInUseException e) {
foundport=false;
System.out.println(pId.getName()+ " is closed");
} finally {
if(sPort!=null) {
try { sPort.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
if(foundport) {
ports.add(pId.getName());
System.out.println(pId.getName()+ " is open");
return ports;
please help me on how to open the comm ports..

Try this, It workd for me. Before doing this make sure you have serial ports on you r computer by following these steps:
open "regedit"
go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" > HARDWARE > DEVICEMAP
and check if there is any serial ports. If htere is any, then use following program to enumerate throught the ports:
class SimpleRead() {
portList = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
     while (portList.hasMoreElements()) {
     portId = (CommPortIdentifier) portList.nextElement();
     if (portId.getPortType() == CommPortIdentifier.PORT_SERIAL) {
          if (portId.getName().equals(defaultPort)) {
          System.out.println("Found port: "+defaultPort);
          portFound = true;
          SimpleRead reader = new SimpleRead();
     if (!portFound) {
     System.out.println("port " + defaultPort + " not found.");
}

Wiring FP-1001 to a comm port on my computer?

I am trying to wire my FP-1001 to my PC. I purchased a 9pin serial port connecter in hope that all I had to do was plug the female end into comm port one, splice the other end and connect them to RX+, RX-, TX+, TX- and GND. My only problem is how do I know which wires go where? Or do I need to purchase a RS-485 card for my PC.

Hi all
That is not quite true!National Instruments is selling PCI-485 boards with two, four or eight ports.
Under this link you find a quick start guide how to connect the FP-1001 to a RS-485 port.
http://digital.ni.com/manuals.nsf/webAdvsearch/554FEB385A006C8E86256AC300647F62?OpenDocument
Regards,
Luca

Comm port enumeration

Hi,
im using javacomm to detect my comm ports.i have two serial
and a parallel port (com1,com2 and LPT1) but it found no ports and throws
as follows,
found: javax.comm.CommPortEnumerator@e83912
found: 0 open ports
i placed .properties file in ..\jdk1.5.0\jre\lib
comm jar file in ..\jdk1.5.0\jre\lib\ext
and WIN32COM.DLL in ..jre\bin
am i doing right?
Here is the code,
import javax.comm.CommPortIdentifier;
import javax.comm.SerialPort;
import javax.comm.PortInUseException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Vector;
public class TestEnumeration {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Vector portslist = TestEnumeration.getAvailableSerialPorts();
System.out.println("found: "+portslist.size()+" open ports");
public static Vector getAvailableSerialPorts() {
CommPortIdentifier pId=null;
SerialPort sPort=null;
Enumeration pList=null;
boolean foundport=false;
pList = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
String port=null;
Vector ports=new Vector();
if(!pList.hasMoreElements()) {
System.out.println("found: "+pList);
return ports;
while (pList.hasMoreElements()) {
pId = (CommPortIdentifier) pList.nextElement();
if (pId.getPortType() == CommPortIdentifier.PORT_SERIAL) {
foundport=true;
try {
sPort = (SerialPort)pId.open("serialport", 1000);
} catch (PortInUseException e) {
foundport=false;
System.out.println(pId.getName()+ " is closed");
} finally {
if(sPort!=null) {
try { sPort.close(); } catch(Exception e) {}
if(foundport) {
ports.add(pId.getName());
System.out.println(pId.getName()+ " is open");
return ports;
please help me on how to open the comm ports..

hi,
thanks for your reply..actually my problem was with my comm properties file and i replaced with the new comm file then..now its working fine..
Thanks for everyone...
bye

Comm port passthrough

Customer has an old Windows 2003 SBS server that has a Novatime time clock plugged into it via a comm port.
They now have a new server running 2012 (not R2) in Hyper-V role only with 4 2012 VMs (all licensing correct). They want to get rid of the old server (need to) but
the time clock prevents that.
I know we can get a serial 2 USB adapter cable so the time clock can be plugged into the Hyper-V server. Is there any way to pass through the USB comm to one of the VMs
which would have the Novatime software on it? Would it require a comm card to be added to the Hyper-V server?
Jonathan

i think your best bet would be this product (haven't tested it): http://www.serial-server.net/port-redirector/ afaik COM redirection isn't supported on Hyper-V.
Some people seem to have tested it and shared findings on the matter in this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a7b09e73-3491-405e-889e-06bb991a2b0e/com-port-redirection-physical-to-virtual
Kind regards, Philipp - Solid IT Solutions
Philipp,
thanks for your response. I read through the links you provided and the first one certainly looks like it will do what I need.
Jonathan

COMM port problem

i'm trying to send an sms thru a serial port but while i'm sending an sms if i recieve one then the message i'm trying to send gets clubbed with the msg that being sent. is there a way to block the comm port while this happens?
plz help me out

i'm using java communication API. jdk1.2.2
i've a java file XYZ that listens to the comm port using javax.comm.SerialPortEventListener.
i've 2 functions
a) one that recieves a messgae, processes the message and puts it in a database
b)another one that sends the processed message using AT commmands
i've a another java file ABC that continously reads the database,picks the message to be sent and calls the method in XYZ to send the message.
Now the problem is while sending this message if i recieve another messgae, then the actual sending never happens.
is there a method whereby i can block the comm port from recieving a messgae while a messgae is being sent

Too many usb comm ports

Good Morning,
I've run into what may be issue soon, where we have the units being tested that have built in USB ports that appear as serial comm ports. The problem is that every time we connect a UUT that hasn't been run on that computer before Windows assigns it a new com port number. My concern is that quite soon, as the production line gets into full swing, we will hit the "magic number" of 255, the highest com port number and I don't have any idea what Windows will do at that point. Before I start writing code to parse the new com port number returned by VISA, and adjust" the registry entries accordingly, I want to know if it is necessary. I figure that there are a couple of possible scenarios, that Windows complains and won't issue a com port #, that Windows starts over at the beginning, or that Windows just hits 255 and then keeps reissuing it. I would prefer that it be the later two, don't want to have my program messing around in the registry, and really don't have time at the moment, nor access to the machine(s) to experiment to see.
Thanks,
Putnam
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Senior Test Engineer
Currently using LV 6.1-LabVIEW 2012, RT8.5
LabVIEW Champion
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I'm not sure that I understand your answer. The problem is that on our test stands we will see hundreds of the product boards go by over the life of the boards. As I have seen with "standalone" usb-serial adapters, when a new one is plugged in, that the computer hasn't "seen" before, it will assign it the next available comm port #. It probably knows that it hasn't seen it before by some serial numbering type scheme that is returned in the USB's header info when plugged in. As the hardware design for the unit containing this USB interface is essentially frozen, and as that side of the design group won't see it as a problem in the target systems (where the boards won't be "talked to" via the USB path) it is unlikely that I can get any hardware/firmware changes. I'm not sure that would be the way to go anyway. Definitely not going to get a change to the BOM at this point (on top of which I'm an outside contract test consultant). So I will have to address the problem on my side of the fence. I haven't looked yet, but am pretty certain that the Com#'s are stored in the registry, so I can just make sure that I "reset" those numbers before they get to 255, but am never comfortable with my programs modifying the registry.
Putnam
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Senior Test Engineer
Currently using LV 6.1-LabVIEW 2012, RT8.5
LabVIEW Champion

Envio de Trem de Pulsos pela porta SERIAL

Olá pessoal. Eu preciso enviar trem de pulsos de frequencia de 1Hz com tempo em nível alto de 5us (micro segundos) durante uns 30 minutos pelo pino 3 da porta serial ( Tx ). Ja montei o circuito de conversao de RS232 para TTL. E no programa ja fiz a rotina basica de envio de sinal pela porta serial e ja constatei seu perfeito funcionamento. O meu problema é que nao consigo enviar um NIVEL 0 para a saida. No bloco respensavel pela escrita VISA SERIA WRITE o valor que coloco é representado em ASCII e nao consigo enviar um nivel logico zero na saida. Ja consultei a tabela e o codigo NUL que representa os bits 0 nao sai. Tentei usar o VI BREAK mas ele nao satisfaz meu projeto pois mantem o nivel baixo somente por 500ms e ocorre um certo delay.
Resumindo COMO ENVIO UM BIT ZERO PARA SAIDA PELO VISA SERIAL WRITE EM ASCII??? Desejo que minha saida fique em zero por alguns segundos.
Obrigado pessoal. Em anexo segue meu programa.
Anexos:
serial.vi ‏10 KB

Oi Thiago,
Na saída Serial, todos os valores '0' representam valores positivos e todos os '1' representam valores negativos. Para ficar mais fácil de entender, lembre que o MSB determina o sinal do valor:
0xxxxxxx -> positivo
1xxxxxxx -> negativo
Este link fala um pouco mais sobre como medir os valores da porta serial e aborda esse assunto (as imagens não estão abrindo, mas você consegue abrí-las pelos arquivos em anexo):
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/79B995C3638F4177862572C900593631?opendocument&Submitted&&...
Para você que está trabalhando com comunicação serial, é legal também manter esse guia:
http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371253b.pdf
Espero ter ajudado!
Ricardo Ramos
Engenheiro de Vendas - Sul
National Instruments Brasil

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